{"id":3789,"date":"2015-05-06T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.renewableenergyworld.com\/rea\/blog\/post\/2015\/05\/are-we-sunk-the-electric-utilitys-titanic-problem?cmpid=rss"},"modified":"2015-05-06T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:29:00","slug":"are-we-sunk-the-electric-utilitys-titanic-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/are-we-sunk-the-electric-utilitys-titanic-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We Sunk? The Electric Utility\u2019s Titanic Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In my recent report on the utility business model of the future, I laid out 5 pillars of a democratic energy system. It\u2019s hard not to notice the contrast between this vision of the future and the 15-year business plan laid out by Xcel Energy in Minnesota, the incumbent monopoly serving about half the state\u2019s electric customers. Like those of its pe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"110\" src=\"http:\/\/www.renewableenergyworld.com\/\/assets\/images\/story\/2015\/5\/5\/feature-0-1430859769030.jpg\"> In my recent report on the utility business model of the future, I laid out 5 pillars of a democratic energy system. It&rsquo;s hard not to notice the contrast between this vision of the future and the 15-year business plan laid out by Xcel Energy in Minnesota, the incumbent monopoly serving about half the state&rsquo;s electric customers. Like those of its pe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349,1],"tags":[401,399,345,448,404],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3790,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}